Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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FOREWORD Butier University and Indianapolis have grown from humble be- ginnings together. They have held the common purposes of promoting the progress of civilization, of ensuring the welfare of their people through the mechanism of science and through the power of judgment gained through broader knowledge. Almost every constructive element in a large city such as Indianap- olis has its likeness in the life of a university. The university is the training ground for future citizens and as such must maintain and en- courage the institutions and interests for which its students are prepar- ing. Indianapolis and Butler mutually benefit by contributions to each other. A city profits culturally, gains prestige from close association with a univers realizes its advantages from the multiplicity of business graduates, and available libraries and experimental graduates. Young men and young women can thus secure their entire education in one community, growii and womanhood where their business contacts have their acquaintances reside, and where, ultimately, places as leaders and as the backbone of the civic life Although the parallel is not always strict, the deavored to symbolize pictorially five of the featu activity and their counterparts on the campus of But

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A beautiful view of the tower through the trees on the campus — the other picture is an unusual shot of the build- ing.

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DEDICATION We dedicate this volume to Dr. Thomas Carr hHowe who, as a president of this university and as a civic leader in Indianapolis, has embodied and expressed the theme of this book in his own life. Butler and Indianapolis alike benefited from his devotion to truth and his characteristic idealism, hlis energetic participation in civic projects coupled with his constructive educational endeavors insepar- ably linked the two institutions, one of learning and the other of doing, in the minds and hearts of the citizens of this city. Dr. hdowe pursued the goal of a closer relation between the training of young men and young women, and the metropolis into which they were to cost their efforts, hie saw a vision of the future when Indianapolis thought, industry, and philanthropy would be molded by the men who are, today, students in the university and who, tomorrow, will be the leaders of a great city. It is to promote this vision toward its realization and to revere the memory of the man who gave it great impetus, that we dedicate the 1934 Drift to Dr. Howe. An air view of the center of Indionopoli